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Mr Spock
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About Mr Spock
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Science Officer
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My first moon in monochrome with the QHY183M
Mr Spock replied to emyliano2000's topic in Imaging - Lunar
Looks really good. -
Dew shields do they work
Mr Spock replied to paler31's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
No, it just stops the excess. -
Dew shields do they work
Mr Spock replied to paler31's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
Cooling a scope down only to heat it up again seems most illogical. An alternative is to stop the heat exchange process by blocking the radiation. Once your scope has cooled sufficiently, wrap it in insulation. This will stop the tube radiating heat. The effects will be two fold: firstly, for an SCT, the lack of tube radiation will have a similar effect on the corrector plate if combined with a long dew shield; secondly the lack of radiation will stabilise tube currents and reduce seeing issues. Aluminium bubble wrap is very inexpensive and can easily be layered and cut as a wrap-around connected by velcro. -
Hi, welcome to SGL
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Hi Luca, welcome to SGL
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Hi Matt, welcome to SGL
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Hi Alexandros, welcome to SGL
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Hi Tony. welcome to SGL
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Mercury: how much interest is there?
Mr Spock replied to ollypenrice's topic in Observing - Planetary
I would be interested but it is always below the line of the houses here. Never had a scope on it. -
Hi Andy, welcome to SGL
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Important - New Server - Downtime Tonight 9pm
Mr Spock replied to Grant's topic in Official SGL Announcements and Events
See you on the flip side I'm sure a lot of people here don't see what goes into running SGL and all the work you put into it. So a big thank you from me and everyone else for doing a fantastic job ?
